
In September 2025, AAC&U will hold the next Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. This online institute is designed to help departments, programs, colleges, and universities respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities artificial intelligence (AI) presents for courses, curricula, and higher education in general. Throughout the 2025-26 academic year, the institute will engage participating teams via virtual events, mentorship, and interactions as they develop and implement AI action plans for their classrooms, curricula, and campuses.
Institute Purpose and Design
AI continues to have a profound impact on higher education. By the start of the spring 2023 semester, nearly all college students had experimented with generative AI, and the challenges AI created in terms of many traditional pedagogical, assignment, and academic integrity practices quickly became apparent to faculty, staff, and administrators. While concerns regarding academic integrity continue to persist, 2024 found many institutions expanding their strategy and focus in response to larger societal concerns. The world of work has quickly discerned ways AI can create efficiencies and improve the quality of service, and nearly all employers across all business sectors now say they are or soon will be expecting employees to possess AI competencies and literacies. Employers also recognize a significant skills gap. They are searching for programs that produce graduates with AI skills, and they are willing to pay a premium for those with such skills. The question for higher education, then, is how to address this rapidly emerging skills gap while also ensuring students achieve the range of learning outcomes currently designed into existing courses and programs. Beyond pedagogical and curricular concerns, higher education is also discerning ways to adopt AI to support an array of programs and practices across campus.
The institute is designed for departments, programs, colleges, and universities seeking to:
- rethink pedagogical and assessment approaches within and across courses;
- address academic integrity concerns and consider new policies and practices;
- contemplate the ethical and equity implications of AI;
- adopt AI competencies and literacies as course and/or programmatic learning outcomes;
- and/or consider how AI can be employed to support an array of administrative and business practices throughout their institution.
Participating teams of faculty, staff, and administrators will design and implement pedagogical and curricular strategies to address the breadth of challenges and opportunities presented by AI. In short, the institute is ideal for any department, program, or institution that is ready to address this new era.
The 2025–26 Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum (IAPC) offers a structured, eight-month experience for participating teams to develop and implement an AI-focused action plan tailored to their institution's needs. Institute faculty—all experts in AI, organizational change, pedagogical practice, and curricular redesign—will serve as partners. Each team can expect consultative opportunities to interact with the faculty throughout the fall and spring semesters as their plans evolve and are implemented. With ongoing support from institute faculty, teams will refine their plans throughout the year through consultative sessions and cross-team planning meetings. The institute will include monthly webinars and key milestone events, culminating in a capstone gathering to reflect on achievements and set future goals.
All participants will receive a copy of Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024).
Read about Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning in Forbes and Medium. Also, check out this Inside Higher Ed op-ed by Watson and Bowen
Applications must be received by May 30, 2025, and selection decisions will be sent the week of June 15.
2025-26 Institute Dates to Remember
Applications Close
Week of June 15, 2025
Application Notifications Distributed
September 11-12, 2025
Kickoff Event
Mid-Year Daylong Event
April 6-7, 2025
Capstone Event
Who Should Attend?
The Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum is intended to support any department, program, college, or university seeking to address the challenges and opportunities presented by AI within its courses and curriculum. Attendees can be at any stage in investigating AI in their classrooms and campuses but should want to make change. Teams should include faculty who wish to employ new practices, policies, and pedagogies and/or adopt AI-related learning outcomes within their courses or curricula. We encourage the inclusion of a senior academic leader from within the team's context. Teams might also include instructional designers, a center for teaching and learning staff, learning technologies professionals, student affairs leaders, assessment and curriculum specialists, and others with active roles in advancing AI, curricular reform, course design, student learning, and student success on campus.
Although not restricted, a typical team minimum size would consist of five individuals.

Questions?
For additional information on the Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum, please contact Hannah Schneider at [email protected].